How to Succeed with Your Strategic Plans and Initiatives
There’s no question that strategic planning is essential for individual, team, and organizational success. Yet despite this, the vast majority of strategic plans and major strategic initiatives fail or fail to be fully or successfully implemented. Why is this the case and, more importantly, what can we do to ensure that we, our teams, […]
Harnessing Teamwork, Communications, and Collaboration (to Make Civil Engineering Projects Successful) – Ep 179
In this episode, which is part of our Women in Civil Engineering series, I talk to Hannah Albertus-Benham, a Senior Water Resources and Environmental Engineer at Wood, about the challenges of working in a highly scientific project with real impacts on a community, as well as harnessing teamwork, communications, and collaboration to be successful. Engineering […]
Manage Your Projects to Meet Your Clients’ Expectations
This is an article by John M. Lowe, Jr., P.E., speaker for our upcoming Civil Engineering Collective session: Manage Your Projects to Meet Your Clients’ Expectations, which you can find here. Hardly anything has a greater influence on how we perceive being successful in life than how we meet the expectations of others and how […]
Mastering Tough Conversations with your Boss – Engineering Career TV Ep. 11
Q: How do I have tough conversations with my boss about over commitment? Welcome to Episode #10 of Engineering Career TV. The topic for this episode is Mastering Tough Conversations with your Boss. I will spend most of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted from engineers around the world on how to […]
Civil Engineering Interviews from the Society of American Military Engineers 2016 JETC – Ep 033
Episode 33 of The Civil Engineering Podcast was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, where I interviewed successful individuals at the Society of American Military Engineers (aka SAME) Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo (JETC). Here are some of the key points I discussed with ask Adam Hughes during JETC: Adam is a Civil Engineer in the […]
The 7 Key Result Areas for Engineering Career Success
You have the skills and ability right now to be ten times more successful in your engineering career. To make this change requires a strategy to focus your efforts and a commitment to incremental improvement. The strategy will be built on seven domains that you have complete control over. Complete control to either improve […]
Leadership 101- A New Paradigm?
This is a guest blog post by Croft Edwards Congratulations, you have been such a great engineer that management has decided to make you a leader and give you a team of engineers to lead. Shouldn’t be too difficult to do, after all people are just like engineering problems and in your 4 plus years […]
What’s An Ambivert? It’s How To Move Others Throughout Your Engineering Career
For the longest time through my engineering career I labeled myself an ‘introvert’. You know, the typical engineer stereotype: reserved, shy, maybe a bit nerdy. OK, maybe seriously nerdy. In any case, I just considered myself the stereotypical engineer introvert. This was despite the fact that I was leading people, talking in front of groups […]
The Power Poses: Blowing Through Anxiety in Your Next Stressful Engagement
Researchers in psychology are uncovering amazing facts about how our brains are wired. The results benefit more than just the research scientists and psychologists. Even us engineers can benefit from this information and put it to good use in our daily lives. The brain is so impressive that it can help you improve your power […]
